[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: apple in Eden

[Susanne Schmid]

 --- David <dfrankiswork at netscape.net> wrote: 

Compliments to Dave's father!
<snip>


<(i) what word was used in any given <BR>
<language to refer to the fruit?
 
I think that in this case the most important language
is Latin , so I dug up my copy of the "Vulgata" and
the word it uses is "fructus"- fruit. And the tree is
referred to as "lignum", which practically is a pars
pro toto, "wood" instead of "tree". 

<and (ii) precisely what fruit(s) did <BR>
<that word otherwise refer to? <BR>

Umph!! That's the problem, "fructus" in Latin is as
generic as "fruit" in English. No help there. The only
etymology I could think of is that the fruit was
offered by The Evil One and to eat it was forbidden by
God himself and thus an evil deed- "evil" in Latin
would be "malum" which is a homonym of
"malum"="apple". After the fall of the Western Roman
Empire, nobody cared much about prosody any more, so
it didn't matter that the two "malum" differed by the
length of the "a" and so, it was automatically assumed
that what initially was only an unspecified fruit
might be an apple. 

Susanna/pigwidgeon37 (who maybe didn't clear the
waters, but had an opportunity to show off :o) )




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